Re: reiser4 oops

2006-07-03 Thread Łukasz Mierzwa
Dnia Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:10:48 +0200, Vladimir V. Saveliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał: would you please check whether this patch helps? ftp://ftp.ru.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17/2.6.17-mm5/broken-out/reiser4-run-truncate_inode_pages-in-reiser4_delete_inode.patch

Re: reiser4 oops

2006-07-03 Thread Jake Maciejewski
Thanks for the patch. I don't think I'll be able to test it before Wednesday, though. On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 14:10 +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Hello On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 22:24 -0600, Jake Maciejewski wrote: I'm seeing this on 2.6.16.20 with the -4 patch, amd64 with preempt. The OOM

Re: reiser4 oops

2006-07-02 Thread Jake Maciejewski
I'm seeing this on 2.6.16.20 with the -4 patch, amd64 with preempt. The OOM killer was called even though I have 1GB RAM and 4GB swap. My logs are available at: http://people.msoe.edu/~maciejej/patches/AMD64_reiser4_debug/20060702/oom.txt.gz Both affected filesystems (rsync was using one

Re: reiser4 oops

2006-07-01 Thread Łukasz Mierzwa
Dnia Sat, 01 Jul 2006 22:08:23 +0200, Łukasz Mierzwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał: I'm running x86 gentoo system with / on reiser4, I'm using suspend-sources-2.6.16-r8 kernel with 2.6.16-4 patch. Today I run emerge --sync, after that I started to compile new xine-lib while browsing net, when

Re: Reiser4 on top of software raid 1 - synchronous write problem?

2006-06-30 Thread Alexander Zarochentsev
On Friday 30 June 2006 01:44, Diego Pinheiro wrote: Hi all, I got a ZAM-1055 disable_write_barrier, using synchronous write notice when trying to use a reiser4 on top of a software raid 1 (dmraid). I know it's just a notice, but should I experiment any performance loss because of the

Re: Reiser4 for 2.6.17 Vanilla?

2006-06-23 Thread Raymond A. Meijer
On Thu 22 Jun 2006 17:08, Raymond A. Meijer wrote: http://iphitus.loudas.com/archck.php I used to use this indeed, but there hadn't been any updates for a while. So I decided to go back to the ck patches and add Reiser4 myself. :) It's working fine: 09:00:09 up 15:50, 1 user, load

Re: Reiser4 for 2.6.17 Vanilla?

2006-06-22 Thread Alexey Polyakov
On 6/22/06, Raymond A. Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thing is, I want to use 2.6.17-ck1 as well... I'll give it a shot with this patch and see what happens :) There should be one failed chunk (mm/readahead.c), just ignore it. -- Alexey Polyakov

Re: Reiser4 for 2.6.17 Vanilla?

2006-06-22 Thread Christian Trefzer
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 04:41:13PM +0300, Raymond A. Meijer wrote: The patch reiser4-for-2.6.16-4 should apply just fine, I use it myself on top of 2.6.17. The thing is, I want to use 2.6.17-ck1 as well... I'll give it a shot with this patch and see what happens :) You might want to take

Re: Reiser4 for 2.6.17 Vanilla?

2006-06-22 Thread Raymond A. Meijer
On Thu 22 Jun 2006 17:00, Alexey Polyakov wrote: There should be one failed chunk (mm/readahead.c), just ignore it. Really? It wouldn't compile, so I added to line 567 of mm/readahead.c the following: EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(handle_ra_miss); I got this from a Reject file... Note: I applied both

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-08 Thread Tom Vier
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:25:15PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: Maybe I should ask the following: is the slow drive using reiser4? If No, it was ext2. reiser4, was the slow drive image created by copying from a reiser4 image or an ext3 image? (Standard benchmarking mistake: creating an image

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-08 Thread Tom Vier
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:55:25PM -0700, Nate Diller wrote: this is something i've been wanting to address for a while now. at the moment, the VM starts to flush pages when /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio is exceeded, and it flushes pages without regard to which process dirtied them or

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-07 Thread PFC
Do the file copying programs open their output files with O_SEQUENTIAL ? If so, there is information to exploit... You can change them to do so I rather meant : if a program opens a file for write with O_SEQUENTIAL (which should be done when copying files), will reiser4 exploit

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-07 Thread Tom Vier
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 06:38:26PM +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: reiser4 has an option for that. mount -o tmgr.atom_max_age=N N is decimal number of seconds. Changes older than N will be forced to commit. Unfortunetly, this causes even more read pauses from the source, when running

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-07 Thread Nate Diller
On 6/7/06, Tom Vier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 06:38:26PM +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: reiser4 has an option for that. mount -o tmgr.atom_max_age=N N is decimal number of seconds. Changes older than N will be forced to commit. Unfortunetly, this causes even more

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-07 Thread Nate Diller
On 6/6/06, Clay Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12:25 Tue 06 Jun , Hans Reiser wrote: Clay Barnes wrote: On 18:38 Tue 06 Jun , Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Hello On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 09:44 -0400, Tom Vier wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:51:02AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote:

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-06 Thread Tom Vier
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:51:02AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: It seems that both r4 and xfs allow a large number of pages to be dirtied, before queuing them for writeback, and this has a negative effect on throughput. In my test (rsync'ing ~50gigs of flacs), r4 and xfs are almost 10 minutes slower

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-06 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 09:44 -0400, Tom Vier wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:51:02AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: It seems that both r4 and xfs allow a large number of pages to be dirtied, before queuing them for writeback, and this has a negative effect on throughput. In my test

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-06 Thread Clay Barnes
On 18:38 Tue 06 Jun , Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Hello On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 09:44 -0400, Tom Vier wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:51:02AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: It seems that both r4 and xfs allow a large number of pages to be dirtied, before queuing them for writeback, and

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-06 Thread PFC
This may have been mentioned before, but perhaps there could be a trickle-out option along the lines of if the hard drive is idle (and optionally only if it's spun up), slowly write out the changes to the disk structure. This could also be paired with keeping as much of the data in memory as

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-06 Thread Hans Reiser
Clay Barnes wrote: On 18:38 Tue 06 Jun , Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Hello On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 09:44 -0400, Tom Vier wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:51:02AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: It seems that both r4 and xfs allow a large number of pages to be dirtied, before queuing

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-06 Thread Clay Barnes
On 12:25 Tue 06 Jun , Hans Reiser wrote: Clay Barnes wrote: On 18:38 Tue 06 Jun , Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Hello On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 09:44 -0400, Tom Vier wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:51:02AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: It seems that both r4 and xfs

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-06 Thread Hans Reiser
Clay Barnes wrote: On 12:25 Tue 06 Jun , Hans Reiser wrote: Clay Barnes wrote: On 18:38 Tue 06 Jun , Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Hello On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 09:44 -0400, Tom Vier wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:51:02AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote:

Re: reiser4 for 2.6.16 (version 3)

2006-06-05 Thread Frieder Bürzele
Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Hello ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/2.6.16/reiser4-for-2.6.16-3.patch.gz contains the most recent reiser4 code which is considered stable inside Namesys. This code is supposed to be in mm kernel next to 2.6.17-rc4-mm3. Please try it. Any feedback is

Re: reiser4 for 2.6.16 (version 3)

2006-06-05 Thread rvalles
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:59:20AM +0200, rvalles wrote: ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/2.6.16/reiser4-for-2.6.16-3.patch.gz contains the most recent reiser4 code which is considered stable inside Namesys. Please try it. Any feedback is welcome. Finally, the fsync/mmap

Re: reiser4 for 2.6.16 (version 3) (or what is in the reiser4 todo list)

2006-06-05 Thread Hans Reiser
rvalles wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:59:20AM +0200, rvalles wrote: ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/2.6.16/reiser4-for-2.6.16-3.patch.gz contains the most recent reiser4 code which is considered stable inside Namesys. Please try it. Any feedback is welcome.

Re: reiser4 for 2.6.16 (version 3)

2006-05-31 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 17:49 +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #cd /usr/src/linux-std #make clean #gzip -dc ../reiser4-for-2.6.16-3.patch.gz | patch -p1 --silent #make all #make modules_install ---cut--- if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map

Re: reiser4 for 2.6.16 (version 3)

2006-05-31 Thread mail
Already. All fine :) On Tue, 30 May 2006 19:31:25 +0400 Vladimir V. Saveliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 17:49 +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #cd /usr/src/linux-std #make clean #gzip -dc ../reiser4-for-2.6.16-3.patch.gz | patch -p1 --silent #make all

Re: reiser4 for 2.6.16 (version 3)

2006-05-31 Thread Francesco Biscani
On Monday 29 May 2006 19:30, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Hello ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/2.6.16/reiser4-for-2.6.16-3.patch .gz contains the most recent reiser4 code which is considered stable inside Namesys. This code is supposed to be in mm kernel next to 2.6.17-rc4-mm3.

Re: reiser4 for 2.6.16 (version 3)

2006-05-31 Thread Sergey Ivanov
Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: [skip] How does reiser4 compare to ext3 now (if you measured it)? Well, while writing messages to spool ext3 gives 240 msg/sec, while reiser4 only 115 msg/sec. It was measured while acquiring 136000 messages, occupying more than 3 Gig storage. But while delivering

Re: reiser4 for 2.6.16 (version 3)

2006-05-31 Thread rvalles
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:30:57PM +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Hello ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/2.6.16/reiser4-for-2.6.16-3.patch.gz contains the most recent reiser4 code which is considered stable inside Namesys. This code is supposed to be in mm kernel next to

Re: reiser4 for 2.6.16 (version 3)

2006-05-31 Thread Hans Reiser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Already. All fine :) ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/2.6.16/reiser4-for-2.6.16-4.patch.gz Has the above been sent to akpm? If not, and it fixes something, please do.

Re: reiser4 for 2.6.16 (version 3)

2006-05-30 Thread Alexey Polyakov
On 5/29/06, Vladimir V. Saveliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please try it. Any feedback is welcome. Applied it to 2.6.16.18. It behaved very well comparing to 2.6.15.6 w/ second .15 patch. It's a pretty busy web server, I usually open `tail -fs.1 access.log` in one ssh window, and `vmstat 1` in

Re: reiser4 for 2.6.16 (version 3)

2006-05-30 Thread Marcus Furlong
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #cd /usr/src/linux-std #make clean #gzip -dc ../reiser4-for-2.6.16-3.patch.gz | patch -p1 --silent #make all #make modules_install ---cut--- if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.6.16.18; fi WARNING:

Re: reiser4 for 2.6.16 (version 3)

2006-05-30 Thread mail
With reiser4-for-2.6.16-4.patch all compiled and installed successefully, without errors and warnings. On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:49:09 +0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #cd /usr/src/linux-std #make clean #gzip -dc ../reiser4-for-2.6.16-3.patch.gz | patch -p1 --silent #make all #make

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-05-24 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On 5/23/06, Tom Vier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] What i'm doing is rsyncing from a slower drive (on 1394) to the raid1 dev. When using r4 (xfs behaves similarly), after several seconds, reading from the source and writing to the destination stops for 3 or 4 seconds, then brief burst of

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-05-24 Thread Alexey Polyakov
Mine is 2xOpteron280, on a hardware RAID (Adaptec 2010S on 3xSCSI 146Gx15K). It's a heavily loaded web server. It suffers from write-outs too. I've tested XFS and JFS, and found out that R4 behaves better after system crash (due to power), and it gives much better performance. What I do for my

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-05-24 Thread Alexey Polyakov
Hi Tom, what kind of raid do you use? Is it software md, or a hw raid solution? Also, what's the size of your r4 partition? On 5/23/06, Tom Vier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally decided to try a few different fs'es on my 250gig raid1. (I use reiserfs3 most of the time.) Here's some things i

Re: [reiser4] can't build as module with reiser4-for-2.6.17-rc4-mm1-1.patch

2006-05-19 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 22:52 +0200, Laurent Riffard wrote: Hello, I just downloaded reiser4-for-2.6.17-rc4-mm1-1.patch and gave it a try. It seems that reiser4 won't build cleanly as a module. CC [M] fs/reiser4/plugin/regular.o LD [M] fs/reiser4/reiser4.o CC

Re: Reiser4 release date and status

2006-05-17 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 21:35 +0800, Sinang, Danny wrote: Hello, I noticed the REISER4 RELEASED! statement in http://www.namesys.com/download.html and wonder when it did get released and what its status now. The web page seems to have last been updated August 5, 2004 and the

Re: Reiser4 release date and status

2006-05-17 Thread Michael Weissenbacher
Hello, I noticed the REISER4 RELEASED! statement in http://www.namesys.com/download.html and wonder when it did get released and what its status now. it is released but from my experience the latest changes that were necessary to prepare for inclusion into the vanilla kernel have

Re: [reiser4] reiser4 panicked cowardly: zam-397

2006-05-15 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
hello On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 22:03 +0200, Laurent Riffard wrote: Hello, I've been hit by a couple of reiser4 panic due to zam-397 assertion. It's more or less reproducible. How can I help debug this ? This looks like known bug in debugging code. Please try to reproduce the problem with the

Re: Reiser4 2.6.16.2 / 2.6.17-rc3-mm1 WARNING: out of memory?

2006-05-08 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 17:05 -0500, Yien Zheng wrote: I thought the patch might have fixed it for me, but it happened again. Sorry, first version of patch is not correct. Please unapply it and try the attached one. I think I'm getting the same error you were too but let me paste mine

Re: reiser4 bug [was Re: 2.6.17-rc3-mm1]

2006-05-08 Thread Alexander Gran
Nope, did not work... regards Alex Am Dienstag, 9. Mai 2006 01:21 schrieb Joe Feise: Try the patch from here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfsm=114709188305181w=2 That helped me get past the bootup phase (currently 8 hours uptime). -Joe Alexander Gran writes: Hi all,

Re: Reiser4 2.6.16.2 / 2.6.17-rc3-mm1 WARNING: out of memory?

2006-05-06 Thread Yien Zheng
I am getting a similar error with gentoo's 2.6.17-rc3-mm1 kernel. I had to go back to 2.6.17-rc1-mm2 to get reiser4 to work again. 2.6.17-rc2-mm1 had the same issue. I looked into it, and it appears there were no reiser4 patches between 2.6.17-rc1.mm2 through 2.6.17-rc3-mm1, so if that's

Re: REISER4 problem,

2006-05-05 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 22:24 +0200, John wrote: Hello, I think I may have found a bug. I'm using reiser4 for my /home directory on a 2.6.15 (ubuntu) patched kernel for reiser4. Yesterday I filled my /home once, then emptied it a little, then filled it again, and so on about 3

Re: REISER4 problem,

2006-05-04 Thread Sander
John wrote (ao): I think I may have found a bug. I'm using reiser4 for my /home directory on a 2.6.15 (ubuntu) patched kernel for reiser4. Yesterday I filled my /home once, then emptied it a little, then filled it again, and so on about 3 or 4 times. I shut it down properly and all

Re: reiser4 problem deleting files / directories

2006-04-28 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 12:16 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote: Hi all. I just ran out of space while compiling, and went to delete everything in /var/tmp/portage. I get the error: rm: reading directory `/var/tmp/portage/nautilus-2.12.2//work/nautilus-2.12.2/cut-n-paste-code':

Re: reiser4 problem deleting files / directories

2006-04-28 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 17:22 +0200, Michael Weissenbacher wrote: Hi, I just ran out of space while compiling, and went to delete everything in /var/tmp/portage. I get the error: rm: reading directory `/var/tmp/portage/nautilus-2.12.2//work/nautilus-2.12.2/cut-n-paste-code':

Re: reiser4 bug

2006-04-11 Thread Michael Weissenbacher
Hi, it is known problem. Fixed in 2.6.17-rc1-mm2 (reiser4-have-get_exclusive_access-restart-transaction.patch). as i've been burned by this bug, too i would suggest making a new patch for 2.6.16 including reiser4-have-get_exclusive_access-restart-transaction.patch or at least put a warning

Re: reiser4 bug

2006-04-11 Thread Avuton Olrich
On 4/10/06, Alexander Zarochentsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 09:28, Matt Eaton wrote: I was running OpenOffice and tried saving a file. I'm using 2.6.16.1 + reiser4-for-2.6.16-1.patch.gz (Please help! I'm having to run openoffice on a different filesystem as

RE: reiser4 bug

2006-04-11 Thread Matt Eaton
Subject: Re: reiser4 bug From: Michael Weissenbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, April 11, 2006 4:27 am To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Cc: Alexander Zarochentsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, it is known problem. Fixed in 2.6.17-rc1-mm2 (reiser4-have-get_exclusive_access-restart

Re: reiser4 bug

2006-04-11 Thread Alexander Zarochentsev
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 12:54, Avuton Olrich wrote: On 4/10/06, Alexander Zarochentsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 09:28, Matt Eaton wrote: I was running OpenOffice and tried saving a file. I'm using 2.6.16.1 + reiser4-for-2.6.16-1.patch.gz (Please help!

Re: reiser4 bug

2006-04-10 Thread Jake Maciejewski
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:28 -0700, Matt Eaton wrote: I was running OpenOffice and tried saving a file. I'm using 2.6.16.1 + reiser4-for-2.6.16-1.patch.gz (Please help! I'm having to run openoffice on a different filesystem as this crash has occurred twice saving the same file - after a

Re: reiser4 bug

2006-04-10 Thread Alexander Zarochentsev
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 09:28, Matt Eaton wrote: I was running OpenOffice and tried saving a file. I'm using 2.6.16.1 + reiser4-for-2.6.16-1.patch.gz (Please help! I'm having to run openoffice on a different filesystem as this crash has occurred twice saving the same file - after a reboot)

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Joachim Feise
Toby Thain wrote on 03/27/06 22:34: On 27-Mar-06, at 11:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:32:14 PST, Joe Feise said: Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't run a memtest, but I don't really think that the memory is bad. The machine most likely would have had other

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Toby Thain
On 28-Mar-06, at 10:34 AM, Joachim Feise wrote: Toby Thain wrote on 03/27/06 22:34: On 27-Mar-06, at 11:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:32:14 PST, Joe Feise said: Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't run a memtest, but I don't really think that the memory is bad.

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Jonathan Briggs
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:34 -0800, Joachim Feise wrote: [...] This is a production machine that I can't take offline for too long. But yes, I have compiled the kernel on another reiser4 partition over night, without problems. If this was a memory problem, it would indeed manifest itself in

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Hans Reiser
Jonathan Briggs wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:34 -0800, Joachim Feise wrote: [...] This is a production machine that I can't take offline for too long. But yes, I have compiled the kernel on another reiser4 partition over night, without problems. If this was a memory problem, it would

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Joe Feise
Jonathan Briggs writes: On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:34 -0800, Joachim Feise wrote: [...] This is a production machine that I can't take offline for too long. But yes, I have compiled the kernel on another reiser4 partition over night, without problems. If this was a memory problem, it would

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Joe Feise
Hans Reiser writes: Jonathan Briggs wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:34 -0800, Joachim Feise wrote: [...] This is a production machine that I can't take offline for too long. But yes, I have compiled the kernel on another reiser4 partition over night, without problems. If this was a

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Hans Reiser
Joe Feise wrote: Jonathan Briggs writes: On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:34 -0800, Joachim Feise wrote: [...] This is a production machine that I can't take offline for too long. But yes, I have compiled the kernel on another reiser4 partition over night, without problems. If this was a memory

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Sergey Ivanov
Joe Feise wrote: The machine is using ECC memory. Geez, I know what I need for a server... From the Dell invoice: 512MB DDR2, 400MHz,2X256MB ECC 1R DIMMs for PowerEdge SC420 Recreating the partition solved the problem. So to me it sure looks like fs corruption. I have sent the dmesg output

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Joe Feise
Gregory Maxwell wrote on 03/28/06 13:22: On 3/28/06, Jonathan Briggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But for a production machine that is producing something of value, the extra cost should not be an issue. RAM errors are so subtle and so hard to find that ECC is of far more value than RAID. It

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Joe Feise
Sergey Ivanov wrote on 03/28/06 13:52: Joe Feise wrote: The machine is using ECC memory. Geez, I know what I need for a server... From the Dell invoice: 512MB DDR2, 400MHz,2X256MB ECC 1R DIMMs for PowerEdge SC420 Recreating the partition solved the problem. So to me it sure looks like fs

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-27 Thread Toby Thain
On 27-Mar-06, at 4:41 PM, Joe Feise wrote: Hi, I had an interesting crash on my 2.6.16-mm1 machine earlier today. I usually mount /usr/local readonly: /dev/sda6 on /usr/local type reiser4 (ro) However, since I wanted to update a sw package, I remounted it r/w. The installation of the sw

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-27 Thread Joe Feise
Toby Thain writes: On 27-Mar-06, at 4:41 PM, Joe Feise wrote: Hi, I had an interesting crash on my 2.6.16-mm1 machine earlier today. I usually mount /usr/local readonly: /dev/sda6 on /usr/local type reiser4 (ro) However, since I wanted to update a sw package, I remounted it r/w. The

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:32:14 PST, Joe Feise said: Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't run a memtest, but I don't really think that the memory is bad. The machine most likely would have had other issues if that was the case. You'd be *amazed*. Intermittently weak memory (especially if it's

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-27 Thread Toby Thain
On 27-Mar-06, at 11:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:32:14 PST, Joe Feise said: Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't run a memtest, but I don't really think that the memory is bad. The machine most likely would have had other issues if that was the case. You'd be

Re: Reiser4 stability

2006-03-23 Thread Gorazd Golob
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:43 +, Robert Hulme wrote: Can anyone give me a feel for how reliable you consider the Reiser 4 file system to be? I installed it on my laptop awhile ago and it seemed ok (I removed it in the end as it was while you were having performance issues with it [or

Re: Reiser4 stability

2006-03-23 Thread Sander
Gorazd Golob wrote (ao): On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:43 +, Robert Hulme wrote: Can anyone give me a feel for how reliable you consider the Reiser 4 file system to be? I'm using it on my workstation for more than a year - for now without a problem. I guess for desktop system is stable

Re: reiser4 problems

2006-03-22 Thread sergey ivanov
Vitaly Fertman wrote: Hello, On Tuesday 21 March 2006 21:07, Sergey Ivanov wrote: Hi, wrong bytes is not a big problem, reiser4 indeed counted them wrongly some time ago, although it seems to be fixed already. the only serious problem here is at the beginning of the 'CHECKING

Re: reiser4 problems

2006-03-22 Thread Jake Maciejewski
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:33 +0300, Vitaly Fertman wrote: Hello, On Tuesday 21 March 2006 21:07, Sergey Ivanov wrote: Hi, I am sorry to report problems I had this night at my e-mail server. Grepped reiser4 messages from /var/log/messages are at http://parkheights.dyndns.org/r4log.bz2

Re: reiser4 problems

2006-03-22 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 16:36 -0600, Jake Maciejewski wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:33 +0300, Vitaly Fertman wrote: Hello, On Tuesday 21 March 2006 21:07, Sergey Ivanov wrote: Hi, I am sorry to report problems I had this night at my e-mail server. Grepped reiser4 messages

Re: reiser4 problems

2006-03-21 Thread Hans Reiser
Unless Vitaly is still around, you will probably have to wait until tomorrow for a response. Thanks for your patience. Hans Sergey Ivanov wrote: Hi, I am sorry to report problems I had this night at my e-mail server. Grepped reiser4 messages from /var/log/messages are at

Re: reiser4 problems

2006-03-21 Thread Sergey Ivanov
Thank you, Hans. One additional bit, may be it's about different problem. While copying from reiser4 volumes to newly created ext3 ones, I decided to remount read-only the with mount -o remount,ro command the source of copying. And it results in kernel panics I'm attaching to this mail. Then the

Re: reiser4 problems

2006-03-21 Thread Vitaly Fertman
Hello, On Tuesday 21 March 2006 21:07, Sergey Ivanov wrote: Hi, I am sorry to report problems I had this night at my e-mail server. Grepped reiser4 messages from /var/log/messages are at http://parkheights.dyndns.org/r4log.bz2 I have 2 processor system (athlon) with raid5 software array with

Re: Reiser4 default in Underground Dekstop distribution

2006-03-02 Thread Hans Reiser
Islam Amer wrote: Hi my livecd phaeronix http://www.phaeronix.net supports reiser4 and resier3 and are the default choices. It has a patched 2.6.11 kernel, back in the days when IO/CPU performance was really good. It's out of date and I am preparing a new one, also with reiser4 support. But IO

Re: Reiser4 unlink performance

2006-03-01 Thread Alexander Zarochentsev
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:19, Alec H. Peterson wrote: Hi Hans, On Feb 28, 2006, at 12:11, Hans Reiser wrote: Please describe it in more detail. Well, the error I'm getting is this: Feb 21 13:10:22 ecbuild-10 kernel: WARNING: Flushing like mad: 16384 The C program I'm running to do

Re: Reiser4 unlink performance

2006-03-01 Thread Alec H. Peterson
Hi Hans, On Mar 1, 2006, at 8:27, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: All files created by the program below have zero lentgh, correct? Is it the same program as which triggered 'flushing like mad' ? Correct. I would be happy to modify it and re-run it however you like. You are correct though

Re: Reiser4 default in Underground Dekstop distribution

2006-03-01 Thread Marcel Hilzinger
Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2006 19:34 schrieb Peter Foldiak: Marcel (Hilzinger), Did you write this Linux Magazine article? Could you give some details on what the problem was? Yes, I wrote the article. The version I tested suffered much from the fsync problem. There were timeouts approx every

Re: Reiser4 default in Underground Dekstop distribution

2006-03-01 Thread Hans Reiser
Marcel Hilzinger wrote: Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2006 19:34 schrieb Peter Foldiak: Marcel (Hilzinger), Did you write this Linux Magazine article? Could you give some details on what the problem was? Yes, I wrote the article. The version I tested suffered much from the fsync problem.

Re: Reiser4 default in Underground Dekstop distribution

2006-03-01 Thread Marcel Hilzinger
Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 23:51 schrieben Sie: Marcel Hilzinger wrote: Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2006 19:34 schrieb Peter Foldiak: Marcel (Hilzinger), Did you write this Linux Magazine article? Could you give some details on what the problem was? Yes, I wrote the article. The version I

Re: Reiser4 default in Underground Dekstop distribution

2006-03-01 Thread Islam Amer
Hi my livecd phaeronix http://www.phaeronix.net supports reiser4 and resier3 and are the default choices. It has a patched 2.6.11 kernel, back in the days when IO/CPU performance was really good. It's out of date and I am preparing a new one, also with reiser4 support. But IO performance

Re: Reiser4 unlink performance

2006-02-28 Thread Alec H. Peterson
Hi Alexander, On Feb 26, 2006, at 13:42, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: Which kernel version and reiser4 patches were used? 2.6.15.4r4 kernel, reiser4-for-2.6.15-1.patch Is the system SMP? Yes. No, Flushing like mad usually indicates a bug. Good to know. Thanks! Alec

Re: Reiser4 unlink performance

2006-02-28 Thread Hans Reiser
Alec H. Peterson wrote: Hi Alexander, On Feb 26, 2006, at 13:42, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: Which kernel version and reiser4 patches were used? 2.6.15.4r4 kernel, reiser4-for-2.6.15-1.patch Is the system SMP? Yes. No, Flushing like mad usually indicates a bug. Please

Re: Reiser4 unlink performance

2006-02-28 Thread Alec H. Peterson
Hi Hans, On Feb 28, 2006, at 12:11, Hans Reiser wrote: Please describe it in more detail. Well, the error I'm getting is this: Feb 21 13:10:22 ecbuild-10 kernel: WARNING: Flushing like mad: 16384 The C program I'm running to do the test is this: main(int argc, char **argv) { char

Re: Reiser4 unlink performance

2006-02-28 Thread Hans Reiser
I meant for Zam to describe it in more detail, sorry about that. :-/ Hans Alec H. Peterson wrote: Hi Hans, On Feb 28, 2006, at 12:11, Hans Reiser wrote: Please describe it in more detail. Well, the error I'm getting is this: Feb 21 13:10:22 ecbuild-10 kernel: WARNING: Flushing like

Re: Reiser4 unlink performance

2006-02-28 Thread Alexander Zarochentsev
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:11, Hans Reiser wrote: Alec H. Peterson wrote: Hi Alexander, On Feb 26, 2006, at 13:42, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: Which kernel version and reiser4 patches were used? 2.6.15.4r4 kernel, reiser4-for-2.6.15-1.patch Is the system SMP? Yes.

Re: Reiser4 unlink performance

2006-02-28 Thread Hans Reiser
Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:11, Hans Reiser wrote: Alec H. Peterson wrote: Hi Alexander, On Feb 26, 2006, at 13:42, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: Which kernel version and reiser4 patches were used? 2.6.15.4r4 kernel,

Re: Reiser4 unlink performance

2006-02-28 Thread Alexander Zarochentsev
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:56, Hans Reiser wrote: Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:11, Hans Reiser wrote: Alec H. Peterson wrote: Hi Alexander, On Feb 26, 2006, at 13:42, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: Which kernel version and reiser4 patches were used?

Re: Reiser4 unlink performance

2006-02-28 Thread Hans Reiser
Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:56, Hans Reiser wrote: Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:11, Hans Reiser wrote: Alec H. Peterson wrote: Hi Alexander, On Feb 26, 2006, at 13:42, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote:

Re: Reiser4 unlink performance

2006-02-28 Thread Alexander Zarochentsev
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 23:42, Hans Reiser wrote: Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:56, Hans Reiser wrote: Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:11, Hans Reiser wrote: Alec H. Peterson wrote: Hi Alexander, On Feb 26, 2006, at 13:42,

Re: Reiser4 default in Underground Dekstop distribution

2006-02-27 Thread Hans Reiser
Peter Foldiak wrote: correction: Sorry, I now see on their site that: Underground Desktop 022 ... the filesystem is now reiserfs v3 instead of reiser4 - which seems not enough stable and fast - and the bootloader is grub instead of lilo. (It's funny, their April edition was already out of date

Re: Reiser4 default in Underground Dekstop distribution

2006-02-26 Thread Hans Reiser
There are so little details that it is hard to know what the problem they had was. It does sound though like we need to smooth out the commits. We have deferred that for a while. I know how we should do it, we just need to do it. Sigh, there are so many things like that. Probably fsync

Re: Reiser4 default in Underground Dekstop distribution

2006-02-26 Thread Peter Foldiak
Marcel (Hilzinger), Did you write this Linux Magazine article? Could you give some details on what the problem was? Peter On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:34, Hans Reiser wrote: There are so little details that it is hard to know what the problem they had was. It does sound though like we need

Re: Reiser4 default in Underground Dekstop distribution

2006-02-26 Thread jp
Peter Foldiak wrote: Marcel (Hilzinger), Did you write this Linux Magazine article? Could you give some details on what the problem was? Peter On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:34, Hans Reiser wrote: There are so little details that it is hard to know what the problem they had was. It

Re: Reiser4 default in Underground Dekstop distribution

2006-02-25 Thread Peter Foldiak
correction: Sorry, I now see on their site that: Underground Desktop 022 ... the filesystem is now reiserfs v3 instead of reiser4 - which seems not enough stable and fast - and the bootloader is grub instead of lilo. (It's funny, their April edition was already out of date in early February.)

Re: reiser4 bug in 2.6.16-rc2-mm1

2006-02-25 Thread John Cohorn
Sorry for the delay.On 2/22/06, Vladimir V. Saveliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HelloOn Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:58 -0600, John Cohorn wrote: First off, thank you for taking the time to respond. Basically any heavy activity on the partition seems to trigger it. Here's a short transcript: dually ~ #

Re: reiser4 bug in 2.6.16-rc2-mm1

2006-02-22 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:58 -0600, John Cohorn wrote: First off, thank you for taking the time to respond. Basically any heavy activity on the partition seems to trigger it. Here's a short transcript: dually ~ # cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.16-rc2-mm1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: reiser4 bug in 2.6.16-rc2-mm1

2006-02-21 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 10:43 -0600, John Cohorn wrote: Is there a known issue with 2.6.16-xxx-mm1? I too am having severe and very random, but reproducible problems which will completely lock up my machine minutes after mounting an R4 partition if not seconds. I did try disabling 4K

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